Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 48680
Arabic short vowel marks disappear with word wrapping
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:44:35 UTC
A short vowel mark on the last letter of a line of arabic disappears both from the screen and the printed copy when a word wrap occurs anywhere within the paragraph. The vowel mark is still present but does not display. If the last word on the line is followed by a non-break space character (or even an ordinary space at the end of the paragraph), the vowel does display. However a vowel mark immediately preceding a non-break space after a word wrap does not display, and the vowel mark at the end of a paragraph on the same line as the non-break space re-appears. The vowel marks can always be seen by enabling the viewing of non-printing characters, specifically spaces (selected on the "Formatting Aids" page of the "Tools > Options" dialog). Hypothesis: arabic vowel marks are being treated incorrectly as spaces by the word-wrapping algorithm.
Created attachment 25774 [details] Various test cases
The test case contains four paragraphs. The first simply contains the single Arabic word "kitaabun" (a book) illustrating how it should appear. The second shows the disappearance of the final "dammatan" vowel mark from the last word of the line when word-wrapping occurs. The third paragraph demonstrates how a non-break space after the word acts as a work-around for the problem. The fourth illustrates how further problems arise when the non-break space wraps onto the next line. Please remember that Arabic is read right to left!
Reassigned to SBA.
A couple of furhter comments: This issue also occurs in OOo 1.1. I had hoped it might be fixed in 2.0 :). This is not a major issue for most Arabic users as it is not normal to include the short vowel marks in Arabic writing. It will mostly affect struggling Arabic learners like myself!
ja->hdu: please take a look
This issue is a bug from a version befor 2.0 No one has posted new info about more then two years. For my point of view, we can close it. I will talk with sba on the IRC channel. thenks - the issuetracker cleanup team
The bug still exists in version 2.4.1 (just confirmed by opening the test case). Although I appreciate that it will not affect a large number of users, it is a significant irritation to those who do use OpenOffice to write in Arabic.
SBA->HDU: As discussed, reproducible in DEV300_m24 on Windows. Does NOT occur on Linux. Confirming issue, resassigned to HDU.
Fixed in CWS kashidafix02 (issue 85089) *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 85089 ***
Closing resolved issue.